Jawbo Diet Suggestion... At the risk of sounding like a monster

[Cautious Cookie]

Should the Jawbo have a larger seafood diet? Currently they can eat all small fish, but no Seaquines, Orehulls, or Glo Squids. Maybe they should be able to eat babies of the larger critters?

For comparison, the Rhex can eat baby Lumbs, but not adult Lumbs, which makes sense because Lumbs are the same size as Rhexes.

If this change was implemented, it would also make sense for Jawbos to be able to eat Raw Shellfish and possibly Calamari.

This would also help Jawbos since they were arguably nerfed with the recent critter happiness changes.

 

[Epicteus]

Also Jawbos could get a Happiness boost from eating live critters

[Cautious Cookie]

@Epicteus Ooh that would be an interesting way to nerf Pacu without nerfing Jawbos. Although it would be weird to potentially get a happiness boost from both the grooming station and live prey.

I'm worried it would be a little unintuitive for them to have a specific rule just for them. 

[Epicteus]

It could be a +2 like the pacu treat, mostly being there in absence of the grooming station.

1 hour ago, Cautious Cookie said:

I'm worried it would be a little unintuitive for them to have a specific rule just for them.

It could be explained in their database entry and it would be similar to how Rhexes give more resources from live prey and how Beakons gain happiness from doing a unique action.

[Cautious Cookie]

Oh I didn't realize this is how the Pacu treat worked. I'm totally on board with the idea now. It's certainly preferable to having 4x wild Jawbos for the same Rust Output. Plus dealing with wild feeing is a much more interesting of a mechanic to work with.